Mayet
\ma.jɛ\
The verdict
“Mayet” is uncommon French (frequency #78,630 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,630
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Sarthe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mayet · Mayet · French
Mayet · rank #78,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,630
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH measures
Nearest frequency peer: measures (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Mayet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mascarpone
mascarpone
21,375 corpus weight
- massique
massique
21,374 corpus weight
- matriarcat
matriarcat
21,373 corpus weight
- Mayet
Mayet
21,371 corpus weight
- measures
measures
21,370 corpus weight
- menais
menais
21,369 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mayet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mayet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #78,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mayet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mayet is uncommon French at frequency #78,630 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de la Sarthe.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Mayet, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Mayet, spelled M-A-Y-E-T.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Sarthe.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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